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nmELLIGBNT~KCONOMY
1 The job of cutting federal taxes has been thoroughly
3one in the last few years; state and municipal taxes
are still to he tackled.
-; km In 1924 Uncle Sam reduced his housekeeping bills
by, $385,000,000 while the state«, counties and cities’rais-
'Mtfd theirs by $492,000,000.
~ W e’ve had business-like management and a well-or-
ggnized budget system at Washington'. We haven’t had
t.tliem in all pur states and cities. And we shall not have
inrtil business men take an intelligent interest in local
and state taxation.
L et’s start by saying the higher taxes aren ’t neees-
tjarilv an evil. A man whose income is increasing may
well increase his expenditures. None of us looks upon
the m an who buys an automobile as foolish, but" he is
foolish if he buys a car he can’t afford or a ear when lie
has no plane to use it.
And th a t’s true for high schools and highways and
the dozens of other things for which states and cities
«•Attend tljeir money. A high school fitted properly into
■'pmce.in the educational scheme us a desirable thing for a
community; a high school built by Smithville chiefly to
outdo Jonestown may be a waste of money.
«• B ut the fact remains th at in ten years the cost of
i’ernm ent has risen from $2,900,000,000 to $10,250,-
Milton-Freewater— Freeh prune
lrop tor 1924, may reach 1200
cars.
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A study of the cost of living in 32 representative
I cities of the United States, under the auspices 'of the
J Bureau of Ixdior Statistics, U. S. Department of liahor,
indicates that taxation has increased faster tlitui auy other
4eler,'cnf entering into the cost of living.
On January 1st of this year, the cost of living
j these cities Was 78 per cent over the 1913 level, while
'tlic cost of government, as expressed in taxation, has
risen 200 j>er cent. Federal taxation which was $6.92
per capita in 1913, lias risen to $25; state taxation, from
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and locaT taxation, from $12.63 to $35.
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WASHINGTON LETTEB
BY CHARLES P. STEWART
NEA Service Writer
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WASHINGTON — Washington
is very much obliged to Philadel
phia for having a Sesqul-Centen-
ntal Exposition.
Washington
expects to get
about as much of It as Philadel
phia dees and the beauty of it Is
— Washington’s part will be clear
profit, while Philadelphia will
have to pay all the hills.
Take it another way; A century ago one public of The theory Is that most people
who come any dbtance to see the
ficer sufficed to administer government to 100 citizens; Sesqui-Centennial
Expedition will
lifiu there’s one official to every 10 citizens about.
figure, while they're about It and
jia near, they'd see the capital,
too.
WOOD DUKASES. “ KILL” HOUSES
Thus Washington Is laying her
'* Dwelling house« may and do endure for hundreds of
plans for the best tourist year
years, though their average life is much shorter and com she’s ever had.
plete structural depreciation is usually accomplished with-
In summer Washington gener
ijIrA century. So discovered engineers of the National ally Is rather flat. Except under
mber Manufacturers Association when m aking an in abnormal conditions, like those of
stigation to determine how long houses “ live.” Ex- the war. Congress Is scattered
hither and yon. The summer cli
>tional, of course, is the famous frame house at Ded mate Isn’t of a kind to advertise.
ham,, Massachusetts, which- was .built in 1636, for most The president’s away. “Society”
houses do not survive seventy yearn of service, a circum- adourns to other parts. The em
slanee to indicate sympathetic relationship between houses bassies sand legations are run by
and men in establishing belief iiB a traditional span of -underlings.
But this season looks promi>
To any one it must be plain tliat houses und men do
v have many qualities in common — they are susceptible
< to disease and suffer from neglect, and if suhjeted to a
« climate or to a use for-which they Were not intended,
« they disintegrate rapidly. For illustration, consider the
; ravages of dry rot. This disease of wood is estimated
»to cause a I ohh in our southern states of $4,000,000 a year,
| and the aggregate loss for the nation the engineers say
¿probablv amounts to hundreds of millions of dollars.
lng. Philadelphia has sown and
Washington reckons it can reap
handsomely.
PhUedalphia's weakness is that
she isn6t geared to accommodate
a violently fluctuating transient
population.
She’s made extra
preparations to take care of the
Sesqui-Centennial, to be Sure, but
normally her nunfber of out-of-
town visitors Is about a station
ery quantity, from year’s end to
year's end.
Washington ts aeçustomed to a
heavy seasonal variation. Now,
In her off season, she sees a pros
pect of a big crop of tourists.
WASHINGTON, — “What in
the world,” numerous persons
have been heard to remark re
cently, “Is the repair gang going
to do to the White House than
can possibly be mode to cost
9350,000.”
The truth is that the execu
tive mansion probably could be
duplicated, new, inside the sum
that Budget Director Lord sug
gests as necessary to do a thor
ough job of repairing the present
structure. •
OUT OUR WAY
From now until after hte
Fourth, you will need lots
of clean clothes; so many
places to go. Don’t forget
our
One Day’s Service
Standard Gleaners
90 Oak 5 t
Phone 108
Wo Deliver
One-Day Service
Shoe • Repairing
Agee’s Shoe Shop
339 E. Main Street
By W illiams
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Important Question
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PREPAREDNESS
Harrisburg — Linn County
Ford’s been made an honorary
Doctor of Engineering. That’s bulldq (Ock cruslving plant, on
fine. Perhaps he’ll doctor some site of old city Jail.
sick flivvers.
Klamath Falls — Grading be
But It wouldn't be the same
Congress hopes to adjourn July gins for three unit» of Southern
White House. It might look just
1. We’ll do all wo can to help It. Pacific work here, 9140,000 each.
.like tho old one "but It wouldn't
We’ll hope It does, too.
have the old one’s historical asso
Westport —♦ Westport Lumber
ciations.
The theory Is that
Co.
ships 14,000,000 feet lumber,
White House roof needs repair
these are preserved by repairing
during Map.
ing, whlck cornea from raising It
Instead of rebuilding.
so often.
Now, to speak of “repairing”
Union — 10,000 people at big
the present White House is simp
gest day In history of local live
If we evm* get shipwrecked
stock show.
ly to use, for the benefit of those
alone on a desert Island we’ll take
who set su much store by its his
advantage of the oportunlty to
torical associations, a euphonious learn to sing.
Baker — Old Rainbow mine is
,
expression. The old thing will
reftnished, and has large force of
miners employed.
have to be practically rebuilt any
World’s |ral¡e for another
way.
year. We have some more college
Rebuilding it, and yet not re graduates.
building, 14 more expensive, ac
cording to the experts, than it
Ambition’s great. But be care
would be to rase it, begin at the ful. The chicken that scratches
beginning, and build entire.
for Itself is praised. The cat Is
This is truer of the White kicked.
House than it would be of mo3t
buildings, fo rthe White House
Salem r Local canneries ei
has one very remarkable pecu ploy nearly 3,000 people In ca
liarity. It was built originally, nlng record fruit crop.
not from the bottom up but from
the top down.
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Astoria — Largest Chinook sa
The builders began by putting mon. 94 pounds, éaught in Colun
up piers toeupport the roof. These bia River.
piens they roofed over. Then
they »upended the second floor,
underneath -from the roof. The
upper part of the house hasn’t
anything to do with the founda
tion. It hangs fro moverhead.
But the minute the repair
on
gang takee the old one off, down
tumbles the second floor into the
first floor, and then beth, prob
ably, into the basement.
pamts o '
LEEDOM’S
New Shipment Of
Simplex
Cut Outs
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V^lre Jtegegttaf Toole
Pietone — Pine — Binge
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I'rora these figures it will be seen that the cost of federal
fixes is 3 1-2 times, and state aud local taxes 2 1-2 times
SHOWN
ms great as in CONDITIONS
1913.
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If anybody thinks jieople are running about the eoun-
rj’ looking for sights and new locations, a report of the
inufttifiold auto cjunp will convince them of the fallacy
June I to June 14 only four out-of-state people
at the auto Camp. At that, it may lx* that people
lilfe that camp, und look somewhere else for l>et-
accommodatious. The new auto camp promoted at
and Johnson has Hot seen any business and the
i'there are rented to venear employes and mill
the day .tfht*n aomehody now tries to feel
ilak—tr o f t Bay Harhof.
Evansville, Ind., has a milkman de June. Ms'S noooffs Myers, who wears
a tuxede while out on his rounds. How come? He plays every night in a
jaat hand and hasn’t time to remove his dinner Jacket before hitting the
milk route.
—Anloe — Oonre — Soar
If anybody wants to
sell you balloon tires,
aek them this:
“ Mister, are these tires built of Super-
twist?”
Ours are! They’re Goodyear. Balloon Three
—the ONLY balloon tires made with Super-
twisty for greater elasticity, greater
strength and lasting quality. -
You can get Goodyear Balloons to fit your
present wheels or new small diameter
wheels.
Get the low Goodyear prices and standard
Goodyear service from us.
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Industry in the United
earns more than all the
Mtaes? —- Let's have
ehiriwn ranches.
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